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From: patrick@thiazi.cs.cornell.edu (Pat Stephenson)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: reading news over NFS vs reading news via NNTP - Performance issues
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Date: 16 Nov 88 20:46:15 GMT
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I need some help from battle-scarred news administrators out there!

Given a multi-segment LAN where news is available on a machine that
runs NNTP and has NFS, are there any performance tradeoffs in choosing
to read news via NNTP (using rrn or gnews) or NFS (ie remote mounting
the spool directory and using rn).  I am particulary interested in

	1) Effects on the network load
	2) Effects on the server load
	3) Any *practical experience* people have in these matters.

Please respond via mai.  If there's enough interest, I'll summarize to
the net.  Many thanks!

Pat





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Pat Stephenson					     Computer Science Department
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